Anyone could have written this post.

Galloway's explication of DNS really piqued my interest in the rest of his article. His initial description of DNS calls it the system "responsible for translating Internet addresses from names to numbers," hosted on "a single computer, called a name server," (47). From this, DNS sounds a lot like a centralized network, with input from the user travelling from the user's host server to DNS and back. If this is so (or even if I am misconstruing the way DNS works), what is the value of encapsulating centralized and decentralized systems within a rhizomatic whole?

On the subject of rhizome, and on page 47, Galloway shows the example of rhizome.org being interchangeable with its IP address: "rhizome.org <--> 206.252.131.211". Click on the IP link and tell me Galloway doesn't have a sense of humor.